Dual Purpose Snares

Dual-purpose fox snares can be used in either self-locking or free-running positions, depending on the way in which the metal wire is threaded.

A dual-purpose snare consists of a small metal bracket with three holes. One end of the wire is anchored through the first hole of the bracket, and a noose is then formed with the other end of the wire passing through one of the other two holes in the bracket; this end is then attached to the stake, fence post or whatever. If the tail-end of the wire is passed through the middle hole of the bracket, it forms a free-running snare. If however it passes through the top hole it forms a self-locking snare.

Although on the face of it free-running snares are more humane because they will slacken off, in practice it is easy for kinks to form in the wire of these snares, turning them into self-lockers.

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The National Anti Snaring Campaign is the UK’s leading animal welfare organisation campaigning against the sale and manufacture of animal snares. We also aim to increase public awareness of the cruelty of snares.